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The telecommunications market in Botswana will generate service revenue of $326m in 2016. Pyramid Research expects to see overall service revenue grow at a CAGR of 2.4 % over 2015-2020. Growth will be driven by the increasing consumption of mobile voice and mobile data services. Over the next five years, operators should seize opportunities to improve and upgrade their existing networks in order to leverage the growing demand for mobile data. Network and handset vendors can partner with operators to capitalize on the network expansion and data opportunities available in the market.
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The telecommunications market in Equatorial Guinea is estimated to generate US$84m (CFA51.7bn) in service revenue in 2016 and will continue to grow in high single digits through 2020. Mobile data will be the fastest-growing segment. Over the next five years, we expect operators will focus on improving and upgrading their existing networks to leverage the growing demand of mobile data. Infrastructure vendors are partnering with the operators to facilitate them in modernization of infrastructure.
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– The overall telecom service revenue in Equatorial Guinea is expected to...

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The telecommunications market in Mauritius will generate service revenue of $306.3m in 2016. Pyramid Research expects to see overall service revenue grow at a CAGR of 5.7 % over 2015-2020. Growth will be driven by the increasing consumption of mobile data, largely supported by the expansion of 4G and investments in fiber infrastructure. Additionally, operators will concentrate on seizing opportunities related to bundled offerings and mobile value-added services. Moreover, the Smart Mauritius strategic plan will create a myriad of opportunities for vendors and operators alike.
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The telecommunications market in Poland will generate revenue of $7.3bn (Zl 29.6bn) in 2016. CAGR in local currency will be -0.5%. Market revenue in local currency is expected to stabilize from 2018 onward, driven by operators’ focus on expansion of 3G, 4G and fiber networks. Mobile data revenue will grow at a CAGR of 4.4% in local currency to reach Zl 8.5bn ($2.5bn) in 2021, with contribution to overall ARPS increasing from 35.2% in 2016 to 46.3% in 2021. Fixed VoIP will witness strong growth over 2016-2021 (CAGR of 6.7%), while fixed broadband and pay-TV will register CAGRs of 2.4%...

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The telecommunications market in Jordan generated service revenue of $1.1bn in 2015. Pyramid Research expects Jordan’s telecom services to grow at a CAGR of 1.3% over the 2015-2020 period to reach $1.2bn in 2020. The growth will be driven by the increasing consumption of mobile data, largely supported by expansion of 4G rollouts and investments in fiber infrastructure. Additionally, operators will concentrate on seizing opportunities in providing bundled packs with smartphone offerings along with developing innovative products/services such as m-banking, M2M and cloud-based services,...

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Availability of 4G services is disparately distributed between developed and emerging countries in Asia-Pacific region. However, 4G has been rapidly gaining ground across the region with the rising demand for data services. In increasing network capacity, mobile operators face challenges such as the shortage of spectrum and high cost of network deployment. The key question for operators is how to achieve their ROI objectives and staying competitive in the marketplace.
Operators in the APAC region have been using a variety of commercialization strategies including client segmentation, devices...

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In 2016, Bulgaria will generate telecom services revenue of US$1.1bn (Lv2.0bn), or 2.3% of the country’s nominal GDP, a 0.9% decline in local currency from 2015. Going forward, market revenue is expected to return to growth in 2017 after several years of revenue decline, mainly driven by fixed broadband and mobile data revenue growth, enabled by wider next-generation fixed and mobile networks coverage and the upsell of multiplay offers by Bulgarian operators. Pyramid Research expects to see overall service revenue grow at a 2.4% CAGR (0.5% in local currency) over the 2015-2020 period....

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Globally, operators are striving to develop new revenue streams, increase margins and ARPS, retain existing customers and reduce churn. Multiplay bundle services, combining traditional telecom services such as fixed voice, fixed broadband, pay-TV and mobile services, is one of the key strategies being adopted by operators in the Americas to reach these goals. Operators in Latin America are still highly focused on attracting customers to multiplay bundles through aggressive pricing discounts. On the other hand, operators in North America are focusing on developing value-added services that...

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With revenue of $1.1bn in 2015, or 4.5% of GDP, the Salvadorian telecom and pay-TV services market is the third smallest in Latin America, beating only Bolivia and Nicaragua, both of which have lower PPP-adjusted GDP per capita levels. Pyramid Research expects total telecom service revenue will grow at a modest 1.4% CAGR between 2015 and 2020 to reach $1.2bn in 2020.
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Mobile subscriptions in El Salvador reached 9.2m at year-end 2015, resulting in a population penetration rate of 143.0%, above the regional average of 125%. Looking ahead, we expect mobile subscriptions in El...

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An increasing number of respondents state that the current economic conditions are stable and the future outlook remains positive in anticipation of trends such as significant growth prospects in India due to increasing consumer spending and lower commodity prices, and robust growth in the US due to rise in labor markets and favorable monetary policies. Moreover, respondents expressed positive change in customer confidence within the telecom industry over the next six months, due to projected growth momentum for Big Data analytics, digitization, and mobile Internet in 2016, and intense...